El propietario de Le Dive abre un bar de spritz con ambiente milanés
Jon Neidich, el creador de éxitos en el centro de la ciudad, ha estado imparable estos últimos meses: inauguró el bar medieval Monsieur con Baz Luhrmann y renovó el emblemático Lucy's, sumándose a su creciente lista de locales nocturnos, que ya incluía The Nines y Le Dive.
Hitmaker of downtown bars, Jon Neidich, has been on a streak the past few months: He opened medieval Monsieur with Baz Luhrmann and refurbished dive bar essential Lucy’s, adding to his growing list of nightlife spots, which already included the Nines and Le Dive. This week, he debuts Bar Bianchi, a bar and restaurant made to look like the kind of leisurely hangouts in Milan where you’d be drinking a spritz with a cigarette in the other hand. As Vogue described it: “After dark, its red and green neon sign casts a glow onto East Houston Street as negronis fly from its zinc and Formica bar, akin to a scene from Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City.”
It’s a partnership with Neidich and Golden Age Hospitality’s Craig Atlas; alongside Darin Rubell of Paradise Projects, who owns Mister Paradise and Boulton and Watt, the latter of which had been at the 5 Avenue A address for more than a decade. There’s a full menu here with options bigger than just bar snacks, ranging from tuna tonnato carpaccio to cacio e pepe and veal Milanese for two.
A Filipino restaurant relocates in Manhattan
Hell’s Kitchen Filipino restaurant Tradisyon got its start in 2020 from alums of Jean-Georges, ABC Kitchen, and Mission Chinese. It closed on March 24 to relocate to larger digs: 156 Ninth Avenue, in Chelsea, aiming to open in June. Meanwhile, its old space has flipped into Uncle Ray’s Chicken Rice, a Singaporean spot from poached chicken expert Raymond Kiang. (He recently relocated his stand, Lou Yau Kee, from the now-closed Urbanspace in Union Square to their Grand Central food hall.) This is Kiang’s first standalone restaurant in New York.
Rubirosa is opening a Hamptons branch
Italian American Little Italy mainstay Rubirosa is headed to the Hamptons this summer, with the help of Brian Bedol, the momentum behind last year’s opening of Billy Durney’s Red Hook Tavern out east. (Bedol co-founded Classic Sports Network/ESPN Classic and is a CBS Sports Network entrepreneur; he also launched cooking video streaming Kittch with LeBron James as an investor.) Camp Rubirosa (31 Race Lane, at Railroad Avenue, Easthampton), sponsored by Resy, will feature two massive bars, an expansive cocktail program, and seating for over 100, a far bigger space than the Manhattan location that’s been around since 2009. The menu is akin to the NYC location. “I’m working on ways to expand the brand” Maria Pappalardo tells Eater. Her family restaurant legacy includes places like Staten Island’s Joe & Pat’s from 1960. Camp Rubirosa will open May 23.
